I shared a version of this guide earlier this year, but felt a website was needed to unpack the different options fully. So after an unreasonable number of hours, I put together the necessary data and website.

I hope this is digestible enough for the average person to help those looking to take that first step, or for people who are equally passionate and want to get their friends or family involved.

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Every time I post these guides, there is always feedback on things that can improve, or I got wrong. Please do share, as it is the best way for these to evolve!

  • Attacker94@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    3 days ago

    I have very little experience with the other sections, but I have some comments on the operating system secrion.

    I would highly recommend staying away from Ubuntu, they are making quite a few questionable decisions when it comes to developing the Linux ecosystem which do not lend well to their continued openness and favorability.

    I also couldn’t help but notice that all the distros that are represented are Debian based, I would probably throw in fedora Linux for begginer friendly and bazzite for the gaming crowd although I do believe a decent amount of the maintainers are american. I also found it interesting that there was no section for moderately technical people, in which case the arch distros should be included, ie endeavoros and cachy os.

      • unknown@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3·
        3 days ago

        I would second the bazzite OS over pop. I have used both (and still do) but bazzite is much more stable an imaged based system. I have had multiple updates go wrong in the past with popos over the last 5 years. Pop is also not recieving the attention it used to because the system76 team is focused on making a new desktop environment (DE) for PopOS (which is awesome but) that is taking some time and considerable resources away from the OS. Even when the new DE does get merged into to the OS I would imagine it would still have some issues to iron out. Where bazite is good now and its about as uncomplicated as it gets with linux. I would even go as far as saying I have more success running games under bazzite than PopOS in its current state.

  • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    The legend doesn’t indicate why some providers are shaded grey or red. Non-EU, maybe. But Vivaldi? Confused.

    Spotify as red is self explanatory, I guess, you could have used yellow and black stripes instead.

  • Zacryon@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    3 days ago

    Just like the last time this graphic was shared: Ecosia is missing the profit share label.

  • ohlaph@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    I do wish more were on pixelfed. It seemed like a ghost town when I tried it out 6 months ago.

  • cub Gucci@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    3 days ago

    Fuck Spotify. They nuked my 3yo account because I registered it from Russia. If you think they won’t do the same to you, you’re terribly wrong

      • stardustpathsofglory@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        3 days ago

        I am not on LinkedIn yet. So don’t care to much about it. But I might give it a try at some point. Paypal is just so much integrated in every online shop it’s crazy.

        • lime!@feddit.nuEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          i am just about done with linkedin. it’s just fartsniffer central, has never gotten me a single lead for a job, and their new ai policy has me real worried.

          paypal is basically nonexistent in european commerce. i use it only to deal with american companies, and very reluctantly at that.

          if you want a pan-european paypal, bank transfers work. and the various direct payment apps in each country are working with the eu to build an international standard so that you can send from vipps to BLIK or any other.

    • whosepoopisonmybuttocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      3 days ago

      In my opinion, both services seem usable for free, anonymous, web based email, but the proton mail CEO made some alarming political comments in support of conservatives and Donald trump. I would prefer that a company stay apolitical when a major appeal of their product is supposedly privacy.